| Toronto Blue Jays | New York Yankees |
| Brett Lawrie, 3B | Derek Jeter, SS |
| Colby Rasmus, CF | Nick Swisher, RF |
| Edwin Encarnacion, DH | Robinson Cano, 2B |
| Adam Lind, 1B | Alex Rodriguez, DH |
| Moises Sierra, RF | Russell Martin, C |
| Kelly Johnson, 2B | Curtis Granderson, CF |
| J.P. Arencibia, C | Casey McGehee, 1B |
| Adeiny Hechavarria, SS | Ichiro Suzuki, LF |
| Anthony Gose, LF | Jayson Nix, 3B |
| Aaron Laffey, SP | Phil Hughes, SP |
The first pitch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m., on YES and the MLB Network. Let’s go Yankees!
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104 Responses to Game 149: A Baker’s Dozen to Go
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Got a beat-up glove, a homemade bat, and brand-new pair of shoes;
You know I think it’s time to give this game a ride.
Just to hit the ball and touch ‘em all – a moment in the sun;
(pop) It’s gone and you can tell that one goodbye!
Oh, put me in, Coach – I’m ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach – I’m ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield.
John Fogerty
Hope it inspires the Yanks!
Billy, we hardly knew ya
When that grounder rolled right through ya;
It was like a curse was cast from high above.
Your knees were bent, your legs apart,
Your aging back wouldn’t bend that far,
As our pennant dreams went dribbling past your glove.
Gene Stamil
(Historically innaccurate, but so be it.)
You got your wish! Jones sits the pines. But I least I was right that I had no clue.
Girardi can hardly sit Ichiro after yesterday.
Headline for yesterday’s games should have been, “Home Cooking and Sushi.”
Someone should remind Cano, first of all with 2 outs HIT!. Second, you don’t know how to bunt.
The amusement value of seeing him beat out a bunt would have been great.
I wouldn’t mind if leading odd an inning. They were giving him the 3rd base line. But it’s crazy with 2 outs, requiring an extra base hit to score him.
Agreed, but you gotta have some entertainment in these games.
I’m a simple man, any Yankee win will entertain me.
Hughes is dominating the righties, but those 2 lefties sure hit him hard. The way the Yanks aren’t hitting he can’t afford to do that much.
He has a reverse split this year, doesn’t he?
I’m absolutely certain you’re correct.
I better look it up.
vs L = .203/.257/.335
vs R = .312/.347/.602
By the end of this series the Toronto starters are going to think they’re Cy Young candidates.
Nice! I love when the Yankees throw out guys trying to steal.
Nice throw getting him at third!
Hughes is really struggling this inning.
Officially and ugly inning!
This is ugly.
I don’t like the look on Hughes’ face or his body language.
That would have been a big strikeout if the Yankees were capable of scoring 3 runs.
Ichiro is just HOT.
I think he’s on a new sushi diet.
Blue Jay Sushi, just be sure the chef removed all the feathers.
The feathers are the best part!
Here’s a trivia question I just made up. What single-season major league record for hitters was broken in each of the following years?
1938
1956
1961
1962
1963
1970
2004
2008
2009
GIDP
Nope.
MLB record highs in Nopes?
Close.
Aw, Swish!
That’s the fastest I’ve seen A-Rod in awhile!
Is Moises Sierra the love child of Moises Alou and Reuben Sierra?
That explains Escobar’s eye black comment!
My computer speakers don’t work, what was t hat mound conference about?
Discussing the new fall fashions.
Was it the new Larry Boa’s?
Can’t think of a topper for that.
A 4 K inning….nice. But damn, Hughes’ FB is all over the place. I guess that’s better than when it had no movement.
Lots of pitches, working walks…they just gotta get some RISP hits.
I love delayed steals! (When the Yankees do them.)
Russell with a throw-em-out and a steal. The Martin taketh away and takeths.
I also love errors when the other teams make them.
Now if only the Yanks can make them pay for it.
Bases loaded…kiss of death.
Kiss of death vs Sushiman.
Itchy has a Yen for some runs.
Wait a minute. I thought the OTHER team was going to pay!
I ain’t above paying them to allow us to score runs.
Michael Kay just said Ichiro’s batting average with the Yankees went up 29 points yesterday, to .317.
Jeter is sharing his fountain of ute!
An extra-base hit with the bases loaded. That’s the Yankees I know and love.
Laffey was over 80 pitches with no out in the 4th.
Sushiman 2, Kiss of Death 0.
More! More! I’m still not satisfied!
–Tom Lehrer
Is he a porn star?
No, but it’s from a song called “Smut”.
All right, Swisher, none of this baloney, lousy swings, taking called third strikes. Just relax and be the old Nick.
That’s it, Nick! Slammo.
In honor of the Scooter, “Holy Cow!”
I miss him.
That might be a season high 3 consecutive hits w/RISP!
Gotta love the scoring line 8-4-0
That is pretty odd.
Singleton: “Right off a Wheaties box, that swing.”
Frigging Hughes.
What happened? He was pitching great.
Maybe too much time off, he was struggling with his command all game. Do you think Freddy pitches the 6th?
I wouldn’t mind. He needs work and this is a decent time to see what he can do. If he gets pounded by one or two hitters, move on to someone else.
Now that was entertainment!
Singleton: “That had enough air time for anybody in the stadium to catch.”
Unproductive out.
Now batting: The beast that ate Toronto!
RISP hits. Love ‘em!
Trivia answer: Strikeouts in a season. The ’38 record was set by Vince DiMaggio.
I must be a pinko-commie because I was thinking of a collective rather than individual record.
I guess I should have been more specific.
I still wouldn’t have gotten it. That must have required a lot of research. Great question.
Nah, a few minutes cutting a pasting a list of the 500 top K seasons into excel, then sorting by year.
A Hoagie ribbie!
The Captain in Crunch time!
Hey, Phil, you spend a lot of time on FB? Send me an e-mail at grammarian at mindspring and I’ll give you my FB name. (But be warned. Right now I post a lot of Godless Anti-American Liberal politics.)
What’s FB?
Facebook
I kinda set up a profile there, and check once a year. The only thing I ever posted them was an anti-Cheney diatribe that I though I was sending to CNN.
Oh. I thought you had mentioned it a couple of times here.
Probably talking about fastballs, but with confusing syntax.
This is only the 2nd time the Yanks has scored in double digits since Aug 10th.
Everybody stopped hitting after the all-star break.
Martin’s a sieve tonight.
I love it, Martin had a productive K as Granderson took 2nd.
He’s batting, meant A-Rod.
Slow game.
You woke me up!!
More Dick & Jane stories to come. Oh, and I shouldn’t forget Spot.
2 straight outs? Itchy is in a slump.
Uh, oh!
Down 4-1 in bot 9th, Lung Disease has tied the Red Sucks.
TB 7-4, walk-off HR Upton
Database errors kicked me off the site.
Same here, like 3 times.
Eradicate Lung Disease!
Bloomberg should ban them from entering NYC! Make them forfeit the games.
I think I’m going to hit the hay. See you tomorrow.
Almost typical night for Martin, 0-3, with 2 walks.
Chat at ya then Professor.